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Kal is holding up extremely well today, all holders must be very happy with this on such a poor asx day!
AussiePaul said:So it would seem that KAL has lots of upside and while currently sellers are outnumbering buyers (anybody know why????), this may turn around very quickly with news during this quarter starting within the next few weeks! Good luck to all
I was thinking the same thing cuttlefish. There are a lot of hoops for these guys to jump through before it comes close to being a mine.
The 1.4M ounces is currently as inferred and indicated resources at a grade of 1.7g/t. A resource is calculated purely on geological and grade continuity. Factors such as gold price, processing costs, mining method/dilution, strip ratio and mining costs e.t.c. are not incorporated until reserves are calculated.
Selene's shallow dip allows good tonnes per vertical metre and will have a much lower strip ratio than Mt Henry. However, other than a few isolated thin high grade intersections the grade of both deposits is low. With the steep dip and low grade of Mt Henry it is unlikely a huge % of the resource will convert to reserve ounces.
The Norseman field is especially high grade when compared to the rest of the Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt. However the gold mineralisation that occurs in the banded iron within the Noganyer Formation has always been low grade. The Norseman mill is an old, high cost, low tonnage, high grade mill as it is designed to treat typical Norseman ore and companies have been unwilling to commit to serious upgrades due to the perpetual 2-4 year mine life. It is very unlikely that KAL gold will be able to be treated in the Norseman mill. The next closest mill will be that of Avoca's at Higginsville, ~90km north, and it would be highly doubtful if AVO would have the spare mill capacity to treat the tonnages required to get the economies of scale required by the KAL grades.
Low grade gold ore doesn't truck very far either. The way I see it their only option is to build their own mill south of Norseman.
KAL also haven't addressed the amount of refractory gold either as as the gold in the BIF is associated with sulphides there is a chance that there may be a significant amount of refractory gold present.
I have not chased up the acquisition terms, though you also need to ask why the previous owners handed over deposits containing 1 million resource ounces of gold. If I were a company and I had 1M oz Au that was viable I would be raising some capital and keeping that sucker.
myworth. I do not hold KAL
trtkjd1 said:just look at Monarch the first pit they went into to mine the grade turned to s--t and they have been struggling since. VRE has very low grade And are strugling for survival. i know these next two are underground mines but PSV and BDG both got themselves into trouble with low grade and orbodies that were smaller than expected . however i do think Bdg still has some good longer term prospects as the field was historicaly very large and of good grades. Despite having said all this low grade can still be profitable you just need massive orbodies and minimial treatment issues
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